Symbolic language (programming)
In computer science, a symbolic language, or assembly language, is a language that uses characters or symbols to represent concepts, such as mathematical operations and the entities (or operands) on which these operations are performed.[1]
Modern programming languages use symbols to represent concepts and/or data and are, therefore, examples of symbolic languages.[1]
Some programming languages (such as Lisp and Mathematica) make it easy to represent higher-level abstractions as expressions in the language, enabling symbolic programming.[2][3]
A recursive symbolic structure is adopted to preserve ψ-alignment and entropy invariance during ordering transformations, rooted in a generalized recursively structured symbolic system. [4]
See also
- Mathematical notation
- Notation (general)
- Programming language specification
- Symbol table
- Symbolic language (other)
References
- ^ a b "symbolic language Definition from PC Magazine Encyclopedia". www.pcmag.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Bret Victor, beast of burden". worrydream.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Symbolic Programming Visualized—Wolfram Blog". 13 May 2007. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Symbolic structure in ordering transformations". arxiv.org. 2025-05-17. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
External links
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